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Book Series: “Brill Research Perspectives in Critical Theory”
Series Editor: Professor Peggy Karpouzou
Celebration
Celebrations—far more than mere expressions of joy or commemoration—function as complex social phenomena that reveal power dynamics, cultural transformations, and evolving relationships between humans and their environment. From a toddler’s birthday party with family and friends, to New Year celebrations with fireworks or public water fights (Songkran Water Festival), to pilgrimage festivals that attract up to 400 million pilgrims (Kumbh Mela), celebrations around the world and across cultures bring people together in appreciation and/or remembrance.
The Book of Acts contains elements of human actions and inactions that depict the beginning of a
new religious dispensation – Christianity that sought to redefine the nexus between the nascent
Christian faith, ethnicity, and identity. Identity is a hallmark of many religious groups manifest in
their practices that become a cultural identity of the group. This did not leave out ethnic issues in
the nascent group called Christianity. Early Christianity is construed as a "Jewish ethno-religious
identity into a Christian identity that was unattached to a particular geopolitical and ethno-cultural
identity” (Bennema 2015). This identity was formulated and emerged through conflict with
When
May 17, 2025
Where
University of California, Los Angeles
Submission Deadline
Mar 21, 2025
Southern California Undergraduate Linguistics Conference (SCULC), hosted by the UCLA Linguistics Department and the Bruin Linguists Society, will take place on May 17, 2025. SCULC was founded in 2010 to foster a collaborative, student-run conference for the undergraduate linguistics community.
MLA 2026, Toronto, Prose and poetics of aging in migration literature
I would like to organize a panel on aging in migration literature to provide a forum where participants can discuss current trends in and concerns about the representation of aging and older persons across various genres of migration writing as well as think about future possibilities. I am particularly interested in aesthetic representations of aging in irregular migration, asylum, and refugee narratives in addition to the portrayals of aging parents and relatives who are impacted by younger generations’ migration.
It is no wonder why many voracious consumers of culture, both “high” and “low, both inside and outside the academy, curl up on the weekend or escape midweek drudgery with a crossword, coffee stain lining the newspaper or—to use a more contemporary metaphor—finger sliding across a smartphone. In the same way they do with a literary text, crossword “readers” often find the crossword pleasurable, interesting, and mentally challenging. This is not, however, to say that these harmless amusements aren’t ultimately types of ideological vehicles, however slight they may seem.
This interdisciplinary panel at the RMMLA 2025 seeks to examine the complex intersections of colonial power, medical practice, and literary representation and welcomes proposals of 250 words on topics that address the following questions. How does literature engage with colonial medical interventions, their successes, failures, and lasting impacts on colonized populations? What does medical fiction and film tell us about the tension between Indigenous healing practices and Western medicine, the role of medical “experimentation” in colonial contexts, and the literary afterlives of colonial medical disasters?
amily Resemblances: Hawthorne’s Extended Bloodlines”
MLA, Guaranteed Panel
MLA Conference, Toronto, 8-11 January 2026
The Fifth Annual Undergraduate and Graduate Student Victorian Association (UGSVA) 2025 conference:Victorian Façades, Facets, and Fantasies. A Zoom Conference.
Conference on 5/1/25 and Abstracts due 4/11/25
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Organizer and contact email:
With the support of the Literature, Publishing, and Translation Commission, the UNESCO Chair in Translating Cultures at the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies (KFCRIS) announces a call for contributions to an edited volume on Translating Cultures and Artificial Intelligence. Organized by the Chair’s Translating Cultures Lab (TCL), this edited volume will reconceptualize, redefine, and expand the current conversations on translating cultures in the context of contemporary technological developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI).
The Gaskell Journal
Joan Leach Memorial
Graduate Student Essay Prize 2026
Deadline for submissions: 1 February 2026
The Gaskell Journal runs a biennial Graduate Student Essay Prize in honour of Joan Leach MBE, founder of the Gaskell Society. The winning essay will be published in the Gaskell Journal (with revisions as appropriate), and its author will receive £200 from the Gaskell Society, and a complimentary copy of the Journal.
Indian Network for Memory Studies (INMS) International Conference 2024
In association with Centre for Memory Studies (CMS) IIT Madras
Memory, Narrative Designs, and Strategies of Preservation
27-29 October 2025 IIT Madras
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Website: https://qutubminarreview.wordpress.com/about/
Submission Email: editorqutubminarreview@gmail.com
Submission Deadline: June 20th, 2025
Qutub Minar Review is inviting poetry, short stories (maximum 500 words for each story), one minute plays, interviews, book reviews, memoires and travelogues for July 2025 issue. Submission guidelines are as follows:
General guidelines:
InterArtes, n. 7, 2025
Editors-in-Chief: Laura Brignoli, Silvia Zangrandi
Department of Humanities
Università IULM - Milan
Faust, a Myth of Modernity
Myth is a living entity that develops and grows by embracing interpretations, suggestions, and reinterpretations, in what Hans Blumenberg calls a true epigenesis. The multiple forms of narrative, typical of modernity, feed on myth and continuously regenerate it, rewriting it from various perspectives—religious, social, aesthetic, political, or pop—according to the times, up to the post-modern.
Dear Scholars and Academicians,
We are pleased to announce a call for articles for a forthcoming book focusing on Indian Knowledge System (IKS), which will explore the depth and diversity of India’s ancient wisdom, traditions, and knowledge frameworks. The book aims to bridge the gap between the traditional and contemporary relevance of the Indian Knowledge System, highlighting its interdisciplinary applications and global significance.
The book will be published by a renowned publishing house and will have a ISBN, ensuring wide visibility and dissemination of your work among global academia and researchers.
Suggested Themes
Greetings from the Political Science Department of Rkm Narendrapur! VoxPopuli is back and this time it is better than ever, with newer and more events. This is the official information for the 'Analysis and Augmentation' event (Paper Presentation). Students, Research Scholars and faculty members all over are encouraged to put forward their valuable research and analysis, in order to present it before all of us on the 11th of April. Your contributions matter to us and we hope to publish a few, in order to broadcast your efforts before the world. The above date is regarding the submission of abstracts, after which we would publish a confirmation mail. The abstract is to be of 300 words, with keywords and a short bionote in the third person.
I'm looking to build a panel for OAH (Organization of American Historians ) in 2026. It will take place in Philadelphia and I'd love to create a Philly-centric panel. More broadly, decolonization focusing perhaps on city spaces, art, monuments, ecologies, and histories.
My abstract is below. Email me ASAP if your ideas feel simpatico.
Abstracts due via email by MARCH 17th, 2025
Act fast! Less than one month remains before the editorial deadline for Volume 52 of The Victorians Institute Journal.
We are still accepting manuscripts between 7k-9k words on any aspect of Victorian and Edwardian literature, art, and culture for publication in Volume 52 of the journal, which will be published later this year.
For complete submission instructions and to upload your manuscript for consideration, please visit http://www.editorialmanager.com/vij and follow the steps given by the online system. Any submissions uploaded after the April 1 deadline will be considered for Volume 53.
The Harold Pinter Review invites essays that consider the influence and effects that Harold Pinter’s plays have had on modern drama generally, including such aspects as style, staging, subject matter, characterizations, structure, and tone. We also invite essays that consider the stylistic and thematic relations between Pinter’s work and that of another contemporaneous playwright.
Which texts should be taught more often? Make the case for bringing a lost classic, under-studied gem, or important new work into the classroom. 250 word abstract, brief bio.
The process of coming out is often framed as a moment of self-realization, a turning point where individuals gain profound insight into their sexual orientation or gender identity. This panel seeks to explore how literature, film, television, and video games depict the mental, psychological, and emotional processes that LGBT individuals undergo as they recognize and articulate their identities.
Although initially dismissed as “a holiday from history” (Will), a “frivolous if not decadent decade” (Rich), and a “time of trivial pursuits” (Halberstam) (cf. Chollet and Goldgeier 2008), the 1990s have increasingly been recognized as a pivotal historical moment. Scholars have underscored its defining impact, with Wegner characterizing the decade as “life between two deaths,” framed by the end of the Cold War and the events of 9/11 (2009).
UPDATED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MARCH 16, 2025
Dates: May 9–10, 2025
What will (or should) graduate education look like in 2035? What needs will graduate students have? How can programs best support grad students? What should grad students know now as they move from application to career that is different from ten or more years ago?
For this guaranteed panel, we seek presentations that address the many pathways to the PhD in our current times (and beyond), as well as updated guidance and advice for graduate students from application to career.
Potential papers might address, but are not limited to, the following:
Updated graduate school advice, from application to career;
In celebration of 50 yearsof scholarship and community, the 50th European StudiesConferencewill offer both online and in person panels at theUniversity of Nebraska Omaha and welcomespaperson European topics in all disciplines. Areasof interest include art, anthropology, history, literature, education, business, international affairs, religion, foreign languages, philosophy, geography, performing arts, and current issues in cultural, political, social, or economic areas of study.
Graduate students are invited to apply for the Best GraduateStudent Paper Award in the amount of $250. Deadline to submit their paper for consideration is1 September 2025.
https://mla.confex.com/mla/2026/webprogrampreliminary/Session21868.html
This session invites proposals that explore personal and phenomenological accounts of impairment—not merely as a physical condition of illness or disability but as an embodied experience that generates cultural, social, and political insights.
Call for Chapters
Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing
Editors: P. Muralidhar Sharma & Shashibhusan Nayak
Deadline Extended to 3/14
Fermentation and Literature
Saint Louis University, Madrid Campus
April 24th-25th with optional visit to winery or brewery on Saturday the 26th
The 1516 German Purity Law (Reinheitsgebot) limited the ingredients of beer to barley, hops, and water. Yet, this restriction overlooks the invisible and essential agent behind fermentation: yeast. Only centuries later was yeast recognized as the microorganism that drives fermentation. Prior to its discovery, fermentation was often attributed to divine or spontaneous forces, with no understanding of the microbiological agents at play.
Deadline for submissions: Friday, March 14, 2025
URL: https://etkinlik.diyanet.gov.tr/
Important Dates:
Abstract Submissions Due
March 14, 2025